August 27, 2009

The other night, a car at the corner of 13th Street and 7th Avenue was blasting this song. Ever since then, it and, strangely, the theme song to Degrasi Junior High have been taking turns getting stuck in my head. OK, now for the food part. Whenever I hear "Downtown," I think of Girl Interrupted and the Brittany Murphy character--the one who hoards rotisserie chicken carcasses under her bed. See...I told you it was a tenuous connection.

February 12, 2009

This takes me back to watching Saturday morning cartoons as a kid, with all those commercials for junky, sugar-laden cereals and and snacks. Mmmm...Cookie-Crisp cereal. "It's part of a complete breakfast," you know.

I've already got one breakfast-themed cookie, Heeeere's Johnnycake!, on The List, but maybe I should do a grab 'n go type of breakfast replacement cookie.

January 29, 2009

It's a good thing I keep my camera close to the couch. I snapped this pic during last night's episode of Top Chef, when the quickfire challenge was all about using oatmeal with another food product: fish (!), poultry, fruit, veg, dairy, etc.

(Don't you love how they embed commercials in these shows? The way the product--whether it's Glad containers or whatever cars they're driving around in or Quaker Oats--is displayed so prominently and discussed at such length. It's Tivo/DVR proof. Genius.)

I know the contestants only have like 15 minutes to make a dish, so I guess oatmeal cookies were out of the question. Darnit!

January 17, 2009

I try to keep these clips as clean and G-rated as possible, but this NSFW (that means "not safe for work," Mumma) clip of Ricky Gervais doing stand-up had me in stitches. You'll never think of the phrase tea and biscuits the same way again.

December 23, 2008

I was searching YouTube for clips from Christmas in the Stars, the (believe it or not) Star Wars-themed Christmas album, and came upon this gem. A scene from a Star Wars TV Christmas special with Bea Arthur as the cantina barmaid. What the...? Does anybody remember this?

December 02, 2008

My earlier post about chicken soup got me thinking about Maurice Sendak's Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months, which I think I checked out of my elementary school library dozens upon dozens of times.

October 18, 2008

As I mentioned in my Autumn Saturday III post, Jon and I got to be part of the Times Square audience for The People's Court. You know...we were in the part of the show when Harvey Levin asks people what they think about the cases.

October 04, 2008

This time from the BBC reality show Big Brother 9. I chose this one not for the use of the Britishism biscuit but for this person's...um...vocal support of cookies. All I'll say is that you've been warned. Maybe she's a candidate for a "deliverables" post of her very own.

September 29, 2008

This time from the BBC show called Quite Interesting, hosted by actor and Oscar Wilde lookalike Stephen Fry, on the differences among digestives, biscuits, jafa cakes (jafa cakes!?!?) cakes, and cookies.

September 22, 2008

With all the talk about another Depression or another recession a la the early '90s, I think it's time for another time warp. This time "Ballerina Out of Control" by The Ocean Blue. For no other reason than it's from the early '90s...and Jon always goofs on the song's title. Let's hope some of that "all that's old is new again" doesn't stick. I mean come on...check out the bowl cuts!

September 20, 2008

September 18, 2008

OK. This is very tongue-in-cheek, but it's worth a few chuckles. Introducing a web-based soap opera called As the Cookie Crumbles that's sponsored by a Canadian cookie company. I know...you're probably wondering where I find this stuff. But I'll stop at nothing to find new content for you!

This clip is a preview. (After watching this I feel like I need to pull out the character map I drew up for Middlemarch back in my Victorian lit class.) To watch all the full-length webisodes, go here.